Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The Benefits of Clergie 13
6. The Uses of the Past (14th-16th Centuries) 21
7. Cultural Participation as Stimulated by the Seventeenth-Century Reformed Church 39
8. The Ability to Select 51
9. Creating an Instrument of Cultural Transmission 63
10. Learning over Class 79
11. The Flaneur and the Production of Culture 109
12. The Increasing Autonomy of Literary Institutions in Belgium in the Late Nineteenth Century 125
13. The Public as a Constituent of Poetics 137
14. Soccer, U.S.A. 149
15. Reading in Social and Cultural Life 161
16. Cultural Inequalities in Cross-national Perspective 173
17. The Gentrification of a Rearguard 193
18. The Text-analytical Study of Art Criticism 217
19. Culture as a Network of Socially Constructed Realities 227
20. Contributors 251
21. Index 255